Columbus Knew Where He Was Going, Claims Soviet Historian

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Soviet Historian Declares Columbus Tricked World.

A Soviet Historian said today that Christopher Columbus hoodwinked the world 467 years ago because he knew all along where America was. The historian, identified only as Tyspernik, a lecturer at the Kazakh Pedagogic Institute, was quoted by the Moscow radio as saying he had discovered a secret letter from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to Columbus in which they decided to whitewash reality and pretend that Columbus had discovered a new world of riches. Actually, Tyspernik said, Columbus already knew the location of the Antilles, where he made his landfall on October 11, 1492, and merely dressed up his discovery story to make colonization more attractive to Spaniards. Tyspernik said other sailors had been to America and had told Columbus all about it, and that when he found only a wild land which did not make a favourable impression on the crews of his ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, he and the Spanish government decided to circulate the version that fabulous wealth had been discovered. Tyspernik said he believes Columbus misled historians of his day into believing that he was trying to find a new route to the Orient, when all the rime he knew he was headed for America. He explained away Columbus’s diaries detailing the voyage by saying, on his return to Spain from the voyage, he deliberately altered the contents of his diaries., and the most difficult thing for me was to find out what he had written in them before.

For those lucky enough not to have grown up in the Cold War, Beach will break this gently. A lot of arrant nonsense came out of Soviet institutes of higher education. Typically, these would be spun in one off reports in the Soviet newspaper Pravda (‘Truth’), picked up by the western media and then allowed to die their death when no one was able to follow up the story. You couldn’t send an email back then to Soviet academics. Hell, you couldn’t even get on the phone and letters sent were invariably opened before being delivered.

There is no follow up for this story and that is surely the proof that nothing substantial was found: hacking away at an American national myth would have given the Soviets great satisfaction, we need be sure that they had no self constraint in that. The Kazakh Pedagogic Institute seems to be the Kazakh State University (founded 1928). We have been unable to find any trace of Tyspernik and no one at Strange History is holding their breath.

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